309. The Battle of Nanjing begins
When the Japanese army was gathering forces to prepare to capture Nanjing in one fell swoop, at the field headquarters of the Japanese army in Suzhou, Matsui Ishine, commander of the Central China Front and temporary commander-in-chief of the capture of Nanjing, fell ill, suffered a tuberculosis attack, a high fever that did not go away, and was bedridden. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
When the news reached the Tokyo base camp, Hirohito ordered that Matsui Ishine be relieved of command of the battlefield and that his uncle, Hatohiko Asakanomiya, the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, be appointed commander-in-chief of the forces that captured Nanjing.
The military and political organs of the party-state have all gone to Hankou in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and more than 800,000 of Nanjing's 1.2 million residents have moved to various places in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, leaving more than 300,000 remaining residents and more than 100,000 troops defending the city.
The devils south of Taihu Lake have broken through Huzhou, which is only 150 kilometers away from Nanjing, and the devils north of Taihu Lake have encountered a little resistance, and they have encountered counterattacks by the Gui army on two defense lines, but they soon broke through the defense line and continued to march towards Nanjing.
On December 1, the Japanese army occupied the Jiangyin fortress, and in a few days, after the Japanese army broke through several lines of defense in a row, on the 4th, 40 miles east of Jurong, the Japanese reconnaissance team had a brief exchange of fire with the outpost of the Nanjing Garrison, and on the 5th, broke through Jurong and arrived at the first line of defense in Nanjing set by Lin Feng.
The commander of the Japanese army, King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, divided the troops into two parts, one with about 40,000 people, responsible for outflanking the periphery, and the other with a main force of more than 80,000 people, and attacked Nanjing City head-on.
The Japanese troops who had just arrived at the first line of defense were directly attacked, and the Nanjing garrison had 900 75mm mountain guns, 500 heavy artillery pieces of foreign group armies, and field guns of various calibers totaling 2,000.
The defensive circle is not large, the farthest part of the two ends is only 50 kilometers, and the nearest is only 30 kilometers from the Yangtze River to the defensive circle.
The Japanese army was not slow to react, and had already received information that the Nanjing garrison had a large number of artillery live-fire drills, and when they arrived near Nanjing, they guarded against artillery bombardment.
Although he was cautious, he was still caught off guard by the artillery bombardment, and he did not calculate that there were so many artillery pieces, and the cluster of thousands of artillery pieces was a landslide and the ground cracked as soon as the artillery was fired, and four or five thousand Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded.
King Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace was in the command headquarters with a command knife and slashed, and it was not good to go out of the division, and he had just entered the outer defense line of Nanjing and was attacked head-on, and the casualties of four or five thousand Japanese imperial troops were not trivial.
"Order the air wings in all parts of the country to take off immediately and bomb the Nanjing artillery to clear the way for the Imperial Japanese Army to advance!"
"Hey!" One of the big sorbets almost hit his head to the ground, this is the emperor's uncle, and he has to be very respectful.
Four aircraft carriers, a large number of Japanese planes took off from Taipei's Songshan Airport, Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport, and even bombers from Kyushu Air Base took off to prepare for a transfer to Shanghai.
The Japanese planes at Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport were the first to arrive in Nanjing, and when they saw that the artillery positions of the Nanjing garrison were shelling the Imperial Japanese Army without concealment, the Japanese air forces were furious, and they didn't take us seriously, and nearly 100 bombers and fighters rushed towards the artillery positions.
It's close, it's close! Seeing that the distance from the artillery position was less than a kilometer, the Japanese bombers were ready to drop bombs, and suddenly hundreds of anti-aircraft guns opened fire in unison, and countless high-explosive fragmentation shells exploded in the air, knocking down forty or fifty in an instant.
The Japanese plane, which had not yet been shot down, casually dropped the ammunition and frantically increased the altitude in a panic, trying to escape from the range of the anti-aircraft guns. Unfortunately, however, the anti-aircraft artillery positions endured for so long, in order to shoot down all the Japanese planes, and how could they easily let go, and countless ammunition continued to be thrown into the air.
None of the Japanese planes flying from Shanghai did not run, and they all confessed to the suburbs of Nanjing, and several Japanese division commanders who were watching the battle from a distance had their heads bigger than once, which was a dead knot!
There is artillery attacking the army, but the army cannot attack it, and it wants to bomb it with aircraft, and it is protected by anti-aircraft guns, so it seems that it will have to wait for the heavy artillery brigade and the independent heavy artillery wing to attack the Chinese artillery in clusters.
At the airport west of Yuhuatai, Lin Feng looked at the fifty jet fighters lined up at the airport, a little depressed, he originally wanted to get something more advanced, but it turned out to be a complete fantasy.
If you want to use some high-tech such as GPS, stealth, etc., either you can't use it, or you can't use it. There are no satellites, use a gps of eggs, and be honest and practical with a radio compass. Stealth,, radar is still only equipped with twenty-five radar stations in the UK, and the little devils don't know what the radar looks like.
So this jet fighter is a first-generation jet fighter through and through, and the flight instructors recruited can still study and understand a little, but if it is advanced, Nima does not know what year to study the button alone.
The on-board equipment includes sights, radio stations, radio compasses, altimeters, beacon receivers, etc., and the weapons are aerial guns, which can only be used in close combat. However, this speed is more than twice as fast as that of the Japanese plane, and as long as the pilot is not stupid, he must be biting the back of the Japanese plane.
"Your task is very simple, shoot down all the little devil planes you can see, and don't let go of any of them!" Lin Feng said to the pilot standing in front of the plane.
This group of pilots were all abducted and deceived by Sun Liren from the pit of the aviation school, and the propeller planes can be piloted, and the jet planes are all confused, and they have been trained for a total of a month, and so far they can only say that they can fly and use aviation guns, but as for the real actual combat, there is no.
"Yes!" No matter what the technology is, the hardware of this plane is here, and the speed is fast enough to definitely take advantage of it in hand-to-hand combat, just bite the slow ass and beat it, and the slow one can only be beaten.
Fifty jet fighters took off one after another, and after marshalling in the air, they flew directly in the direction of Shanghai.
Lin Feng watched the fighter disappear from sight, and said to Yang Biao next to him: "Am I too bored, I can slap Japan to death, but I want to drag these people to fight." ”
"You shot Japan to death, and the Chinese people are still drunk and dreaming of death, when will you wake up?" What Yang Biao said did not conform to the rough identity of this product at all.
"Then leave this matter and let them fight themselves?"
"How can it be done, you don't know how cruel the little devil is, boss!"
"Yes, you have to fight, it's the same as not saying it, it's asking for trouble." Lin Feng shook his head, ready to plan how to push the Japanese Central China Front Army, whether to push it slowly little by little, or to drive the devil directly into the sea with a strong wave. Whether to beat the devil all the way back to his hometown, or to keep the devil to continue to exert pressure on the party-state, this is a question worth thinking about! (To be continued.) )